Quotes About Activism

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

Technology has flattened a world where trans people are demanding their rights in the U.S. and abroad. TransTech Social Enterprises is here to empower, educate, and employ them no matter where they are. I could not turn down an opportunity for global exposure that our efforts alone might not have ever afforded us.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Environmentalism has failed.

Real change begins with citizens registering to vote, becoming active and engaged in their communities, and casting their ballot at every election for those who will fairly and accurately represent them.

The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it's embarrassing.

I think it's false to believe that anything good is going to start from the top.

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.

I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.